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Recent legislation has placed a variety of duties on schools and staff that demand both understanding and action on diversity issues. Failure to comply with the legislation could put the school at a disadvantage.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people experience a number of health inequalities which are often unrecognised in health and social care settings. These briefings are intended to show that LGBT people can be younger, older, bisexual, lesbians, gay men, trans, from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities and disabled, and to dispel assumptions that they form a homogeneous group.
